“Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.”
“I love how sincere she is. She makes a mannequin look like Mother Theresa, though she looks better naked. And I hope she thinks I look better naked than a dead woman.”
“It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.”
“It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.”
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ”
“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far betterthat she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker toall about her.”